There was just one problem with the news item: Chechnya apparently has no organized Jewish community, and according to some Jewish people who were born there, also next to no Jews. The reports ...

But the amount paid out was meagre and insulting. Still, the Chechen people hoped they would receive a formal apology from newly elected Russian President Boris Yeltsin. In 1993, during a visit to ...

The republic’s Parliament Speaker Magomed Daudov also called on the local businesses to stop selling alcohol on the territory of Chechnya. On November 27, seven people, including two girls aged ...

Russian forces have shown utter contempt for civilian lives in the breakaway republic of Chechnya ... and caused an estimated 350,000 people to flee. Russia's consistent pattern of firing on ...

In April Russia’s Novaya Gazeta daily raised the issue of gay people’s civil rights being violated in the republic GROZNY, September 20. /TASS/. Chechnya’s investigative authorities have ...

(CNN)-- At least 12 people were killed Saturday in an earthquake in Russia's Chechnya region, Russian news agencies reported. More than 100 people were injured, Interfax and Ria Novosti said ...